Umnir wrote:I tried skype, and it said all my contacts were there, but there was only one. I decided to delete both. Good riddance.

How will you reach out to your fellow niggers, ------?

Kazashi wrote:Daedalus, I don't care how much you know about Blood, your attitude has to change.

Blood + Focus = Love · Faith is the key · Heretics and traitors cannot stand before us · Some games are self-perpetuating - Blood requires conscientious communal effort to survive · We are the last line · Ask not for whom the main menu animates · Blood's promotion and survival - all other gaming considerations are secondary · More than just a game · Need a hint? · Make a stand

I used to like Skype. Now I'm liking it less and less, as it becomes another "integrated platform" for Microsoft.

They removed the ability to access your chat logs, so now you have to go into the system files and manually extract them.

They also keep up the childish shell-game of shutting down the program - hitting Alt-F4 or clicking the "close window" button in the upper right causes it to merely minimize (because our product is SO GOOD that nobody would ever want to close it, and this includes you because we know better than you do what programs SHOULD be running on your computer!!). I have to right click on the Skype button on the taskbar and specifically order it to Quit Skype.

Google's Gmail phone service is looking much more attractive. It has roughly the same price for international calls (a few cents per minute to China) and it doesn't dick around with the interface in the way that Skype does. Calls within my own country are free - for now. The only drawback is you can't make computer-to-computer calls with it - you have to enter a physical phone number. (Google's premium service does apparently allow you to assign a phone number to your computer, so that takes care of that.)

"All right, I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Just relax and answer them as simply as you can."

That whole 'shell' deal you described with program persistence applies to MSN Messenger as well. The thing is practically impossible to shut down without taking far more steps than should be necessary. Add to that the endless advertisements, horrendous memory usage and unnecessary layout changes and you get a horrible sack of shit.

It's remarkable how seemingly challenging it is to make a streamlined, popular, lightweight chat application. You'd swear we were in the 80's.

Kazashi wrote:Daedalus, I don't care how much you know about Blood, your attitude has to change.

Blood + Focus = Love · Faith is the key · Heretics and traitors cannot stand before us · Some games are self-perpetuating - Blood requires conscientious communal effort to survive · We are the last line · Ask not for whom the main menu animates · Blood's promotion and survival - all other gaming considerations are secondary · More than just a game · Need a hint? · Make a stand

I would not suspect anything paranormal if I experienced this with a camera.

Point being, this is an odd coincidence for an already suspected haunted house...

<Boilerplate> Thing is MoonStalkeR: You seem to be suffering from schizphernia, which the MoonStalkeR personality is your base one, Mobius is the aggressive personality, Krypto is the depressive personality, Nautalus is the pervert personality, etc

When Google scrapes your information to target ads at you, the only other party who accesses your information is Google itself. The only person who sees the targeted ads is you, the browsing party. Google's policy essentially boils down to "use our services, we tailor ads to your data".

Compare this with Facebook and other social media, where the automatic assumption is that you're online to share. Their policy essentially boils down to "you're here to share your data, and our general assumption is you're okay with sharing everything with everybody...".

"All right, I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Just relax and answer them as simply as you can."